FYI
Boston Marathon investigators find woman’s DNA on bomb fragment
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
FBI image shows the remains of a pressure cooker that the FBI
says was part of one of the Boston Marathon bombs (Courtesy: AP /FBI)
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Al Arabiya -
Investigators have found traces of female DNA on a fragment from
one of the bombs that exploded at the Boston Marathon earlier this
month, U.S. officials said late Monday.
While it is still unclear who the DNA matches to, the find indicates a female
accomplice may have helped the two brothers suspected in the bombings, Tamerlan
and
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, according to officials briefed on the probe speaking
to U.S. press.
Investigators will now compare the DNA of
Katherine Russell, the widow of accused bomber Tamerlan, against the DNA found
on the bomb remnant to determine if she ever came in contact with the device,
U.S.-based CBS news reported on Tuesday.
Russell is not a suspect in the bombings.
“FBI agents met with Russell at her parents' Rhode Island home Monday to
collect a DNA sample,” the CBS report stated.
Tamerlan died after a shootout with police four days after the April 15
bombings.
"The FBI is there as part of our ongoing investigation, but we aren't
permitted to discuss specific aspects of the case," FBI spokesman Jason
Pack was widely quoted as saying by the U.S. press.
Boston bombing suspects Tamerlan Tsarnaev (L) and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. (Al
Arabiya)
Russell has remained silent, staying with her three-year-old
daughter Zahara at her parents’ house in Rhode Island. Russell's family
has issued a statement saying they were shocked by the attack.
Still, investigators want to question Russell to find out if she had any
knowledge of her husband's plans.
In 2009, Tamerlan was arrested for assaulting Russell.
Still, investigators want to question Russell to find out if she had any
knowledge of her husband's plans.
Her school friends have reportedly said she was “brain-washed by her extremist
husband.”
Meanwhile, the Tsarnaevs' parents have denied their sons were involved in
terrorism.
The father of the bombing suspects has accused the FBI of “setting up” his sons.
“They just wanted to set up Tamerlan, and Dzhokhar just turned out to be in
the wrong place at the wrong time,” Anzor Tsarnaev told the Russian
Komsomolskaya Pravda daily last week.
“Tamerlan was driving him
to school when they started shooting at them,” he said. “This is a
set-up, a political order, a Hollywood show.”
Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, the suspects’ mother, has also said she believed her sons
have been framed by U.S. authorities
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